A candidate for the Kansas House wants to convene a grand jury to investigate Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Steven X. Davis, a Democratic candidate for the Kansas House from Lawrence, filed a petition with the Douglas Country District Court to summon a grand jury to investigate whether the secretary of state’s office committed election fraud in 2014.
Davis, who is challenging incumbent Rep. Barbara Ballard, D-Lawrence, in House District 44, said the secretary of state’s office may have intentionally failed to register voters who had tried to register through the state’s online system during the last election, even if they provided proof of citizenship documents as required by Kansas law.
Kobach, in an e-mail, called the request for a grand jury “a ridiculous political stunt by an unknown candidate who’s trying to get his name in the paper” and noted that “county clerks count the ballots and process 99% of voter registration applications, not the secretary of state.”